{"id":30,"date":"2006-02-28T19:25:37","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T18:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tbook.constantvzw.org\/?p=30"},"modified":"2006-03-21T00:26:33","modified_gmt":"2006-03-20T23:26:33","slug":"99-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tbook.constantvzw.org\/99-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"99 ways"},"content":{"rendered":"
Stuart Bailey, talking about a recent worksop at USC, california. Using Georges Perec’s system of the Exercice de style<\/em>, where the same action is described in 99 different writing styles, Bailey interessantly evokes this practice into Graphic design language:<\/p>\n “The implication of this in terms of graphic design is that any piece of work could be designed in (at least) 99 different ways, using a graphic vocabulary rather than a textual one (or, obviously, both). I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m interested in learning, or teaching, how to be able to recognize and use those different styles in a manner appropriate to each new piece of work, starting from zero every time. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exactly what graphic design and modernism mean to me. The sort of work I like and aspire to make is based on this pluralism, intelligently drawing from the whole spectrum of style rather than sticking to one slavishly.”<\/em><\/p>\n